Progressives Again Call for ‘Revolutionary Justice’ After GOP Comments on Unemployed

28 Dec, 2010 by Donald Douglas

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An update to “Progressives Cheer Mark Madoff Suicide as ‘Revolutionary Justice’ .”

Turns out that the DownWithTyranny! progressives are invoking revolutionary appeals again. A ten-point roster of GOP quotes on the unemployed and public benefits actually ends with Marie Antoinette’s famous line, “Let them eat cake.” And then the progressive response:

Now we know that Marie Antoinette was expressing the modern-day Republican philosophy centuries in advance. And what happened to her?

This is another one of those times where I take progressives at their word. Republicans aren’t Bourbons, but radical leftists would love the same dénouement:

Via Memeorandum with more progressive extremism at Digby’s.

Cross-posted from American Power.